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The principle of orthogonal design is something I learned in CS, but hardly anyone mentions any more. The idea boils down to building software parts in a consistent way such that c…

It was not meant to be personal, it was a serious, if off-topic, question. For example, check out this search: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=payed&sort=byDate&prefix&page=...

Which year Lexus RX are you referring to? The Lexus RX SUV has been around a long time, and was originally based on a car platform which I believe was the Toyota Camry / Lexus ES p…

What!!??? But he didn't get to go into space yet :-(

^^^^^ This x1000000000

>> payed me Should be "paid me". I see this so frequently on HN, is this how it is taught in school now?

The fingerprint reader doesn't work most of the time. Either it doesn't appear at all, or it's completely unresponsive.

We have telescope technology to thank. The quality and the number of telescopes is constantly increasing. We don't just look in the sky any more, we watch the same spot over time a…

Most people I know were, and still are, pretty excited about Spirit and Opportunity. Those were exciting robots at the time. Especially the fact that they worked for so long! 14 YE…

I love that fact that there are "usual procedures" when it comes to humans going back and forth to our 20-year-old SPACE STATION! Maybe we don't have the space program of our dream…

It could even be a gzip bomb

I have a feeling this is neither open, nor inventive, nor a network.

Some people are allergic to LaTeX

I had a Datasette. It was expensive at the time, and it was amazing that it worked at all. You could put one of the C64 tapes into your boom box and play them, and hear a series of…

Wrong. Even without self-driving technology, people would buy these cars. Several friends specifically deleted the self driving hardware on their Model 3's.

That's right, you can't go back to a Toyota Camry any more.

In the South Bay part of the Bay Area, they are like 1 out of every 10 cars.

There has to be a way to have a standard container of dirt, and have it move around various "stations" on a set of tracks or rails, where it is tended to at each station by robots.…

It's not about dollars. It's about your behaviors. Behaviors of the middle class. Middle class people typically do things like own one home, work two jobs, save for their kids' col…

Those making $200k-$500k are the new middle class. Are you making that much but only own one house? Are your cars more than 5 years old... Ding... you're in the middle class.

I was driving past In-N-Out burger yesterday and they offer $16 an hour to start and then goes up to $18 an hour. No wonder the employees there are usually happy.

Just as Microsoft developed Patch Tuesday, Facebook should have Forced Logoff Friday

Only if the act of logging out explicitly invalidates the token on the server side

Same could be said for Google